| Rio Grande Games Carcassonne Big Box # 2 |  | Brand: Rio Grande Games
Category: Toy
List Price: $79.99
Buy New: $53.48
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Seller: allstartradingcardsandgames
Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 1693
Age: 8 - 100 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.8
Dimensions (in): 13.3 x 3.3 x 15.3
MPN: RIO372
Model: 5510169
UPC: 655132003728
EAN: 0655132003728
ASIN: B001UH9FHQ
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Classic game Carcassonne with 8 expansions | | • | Official Rio Grande packaging | | • | Comes with box liner for components | | • | Great value | | • | Tons of replay value |
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Product Description
This Big Box is the same size of the previous, but with a slightly different component mix. Thus, it has a box liner designed with spaces for all the components. This big box includes the basic game, Inns & Cathedrals, Traders & Builders, Princess & Dragon, Abbey & Mayor, River 2, Count, King, and Cult. The components, if purchased separately would cost over $100!. * Carcassonne:
o 72 landscape tiles
o 1 scoring track
o 6 point tiles
o 48 followers in 6 colors
* Inns & Cathedrals:
o 18 landscape tiles
o 6 large followers
* Princess & Dragon:
o 30 landscape tiles
o 1 wooden dragon
o 1 wooden fairy
* Traders & Builders:
o 24 landscape tiles
o 20 trade good tiles
o 6 wooden builders
o 6 wooden pigs
* Abbey & Mayor
* The River 2
* The Count
* The King
* Cult, Siege & Creativity
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| Customer Reviews:
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A great game! August 3, 2010
John
Played this game first with a friend before purchasing the Big Box, which includes multiple expansions. It is a great game, and the product was delivered quickly and in excellent condition. Excellent purchase!
Excellent game for all types of boardgamers July 14, 2010
gorbachav5
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I would recommend this game to anybody who is looking for a fun new boardgame. The gameplay is relatively quick (under an hour once you get the hang of it, and usually closer to 30 - 45 minutes). The original rules are fairly simple, but provide for different viable strategies. For those looking for something more complex, the expansions included with the game provide plenty of opportunity for that. The game is also different every time, as you create your own unique "map" of Carcassonne every time you play.
It's a fantastic multi-player game (three - six players; four is probably optimal), but I'd also really recommend Carcassonne for anyone looking for a good two-player game. A lot of similar board games either don't have two-player rules at all, or if they do, they are so different from the standard rules as to render the two-player version almost an entirely different game. The two-player rules for this game are exactly the same as the standard rules, and other than using slightly different strategies, make for a game just as enjoyable as if you were playing with three to six players.
I noticed several reviews have commented on the wasted box space. The box IS unnecessarily large - we just took out the plastic insert (meant to provide separate compartments for each different expansion) and put all the different expansion tiles in their own labeled Ziploc bag. We opted to keep the box because it looks nice, but if you wanted, you could easily fit the plastic bags inside a cardboard box half that big.
Don't hesitate to get this game! You'll have a lot of fun.
Carcassonne Big Box June 22, 2010
teacher gal (Westbrook, ME USA)
Carcassonne is the best game ever! It will take us a long time to learn all the extensions but we will never be bored. We have bought this game for two of our relatives and they like it too. The only problem with this game is that two pieces are missing and I need to contact the company to get them. grrr Thank goodness the big box has slots for all components!
Great game for all ages - never gets boring! May 24, 2010
S. Vitale (Walnut Creek, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Carcassonne is a great game - my husband and I play every weekend and we never get tired of it. Because it's a tile-placing game, the game board looks different every time and so the game feels very different each time we play. We've been playing consistently for over 2 years and I would say that only now have we essentially mastered most of the strategy involved in the game. It's thoroughly entertaining.
It's a big deal April 3, 2010
Jeff Shepherd (San Diego)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
If you like Carcassonne, this is the box for you.
I'm assuming you already know about Carcassonne. Why else would you be purchasing an $80 game that includes 8 expansion sets? It is a great game, works well with 2 players and works well with more players. You can play a game in just an hour (more depending on how many expansion sets you use).
Here are the reasons you should be getting the Big Box as opposed to all the expansion sets separately
PROS
* Cost. ~$80 for the Big Box, ~$110 for everything a la carte.
* It has most of the expansion sets (River II instead of the original River; no Tower or Catapult).
* All the pieces are subtly marked indicating which expansion it belongs to
* Summary rule book. Very nice to have everything in one place.
NEUTRAL
* Rio Grande now uses the new/european rules where two-piece cities score 4 instead of 2 and the farms are scored differently at the end. These rules are supposed to be a bit more balanced and easier to understand.
CONS
* This box is way too big. Most of it is wasted space. However, each expansion set has it's own cubbyhole so it is easy to mix and match and separate the various expansion tiles.
* It is missing the nice cloth bag from the Traders & Builder expansion set.
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